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Sally Owen
Working paper
Public insurance and climate change (part one): Past trends in weather-related insurance in New Zealand
Climate change appears to be increasing the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, negatively affecting communities as well as posing long-term sustainability challenges to insurance (risk transfer) mechanisms.
Report
Climate change and stormwater and wastewater systems
Much of New Zealand’s public wastewater and stormwater systems were not designed for the challenges climate change will bring, from sea level rises to the predicted changes in precipitation frequency and intensity.